grok/grok/, var./grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. Contrast zen, which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a single brief flash. See also glark. 2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding. "Almost all C compilers grok the void type these days."
Can you all stop being so self-referential from now on?
It's getting pretty pathetic (little boy with plastic army men vs. rubber monster pathetic), "ooh, look I'm part of an IMPORTANT GROUP OF PEOPLE because I can help to melt/destroy/liquefy/ someone else's server." The hyperbole is stunning and tells a lot about the shortcomings of the writer. Did I mention pathetic?
Will it come with finger extensions a la Freddie Krueger? That would be neat and would keep away those annoying WiFi cops. Well at least until the SWAT team shows up.
Speculative investment has to move towards startups (I.E., something that is really new and worth exploring) and not for 401K. What originally pissed me off about this was hearing senior execs virtually gushing about their ROI.
I hate the bell curve concept, but there are those that are desperately trying to make it work within the now dead corp/marketing world.
Doing CAD work I was used to shadow mask monitors (supposedly better for detail work), but I'm more than happy with my current monitors even though I do notice the horizontal lines every now and then.
Buy the highest refresh rate you can afford, and consider a dual screen setup if your video card can handle it. Two seventeen-inchers are better than one 21".
"A butcher [who has created a new language] discovers that the rotten meat he has been dumping into a septic tank below his shop has turned radioactive [balonium]. A maniac named Abdullah [butcher's assistant] has killed the [corrupt] mayor, then brought him back to life as his slave [with an egg-beater arm attachment] to kill everyone in the town. Interplanetary aliens appear and help the butcher fight off the radioactive meat and Abdullah. This may sound like it's from about six different movies, but it's actually the same movie..."
I seem to remember that it was the aliens who resurrected the dead mayor and the town whiz kid inventor used his homemade cyclotron attached to his car to defeat the aliens, but I may have lost track of what was going on at some point.
http://www.bigmeateater.com/prodinfo.html
and
http://home.ica.net/~paulc/canux/review/bigmeat.ht ml
For automatic operation, Roboguard is fitted with infrared sensors that allow it to track people as they move. Sooraksa has password-protected the "fire" command for when the robot is operated over the Internet. "We think the decision to fire should always be a human decision," he says. "Otherwise it could kill people."
You can crack H2 out of natural gas. I figure at Slashdot we have enough for a few hundred years. It takes lots of energy to extract, though. A great deal of research happens in Canada and other regions with abundant hydro power sources. Hydrogen storage has always been a problem, it doesn't have the same "bang for the buck" as gasoline.
Liquid hydrogen manufacture, storage and distribution is a pretty cool subject and is fascinating.
Talk to local tech reps from Air Liquide, Air Products and Praxair to find out more.
Salon.com is appealing to the community for help. They haven't been able to pay the rent since December. To date, they've lost about $80 million dollars
Only $80 million? Even in Canadian dollars, this is ridiculous.
Wow. I could buy my building, employ a few hundred thousand homeless people as slashdot editors, feed the hungry AND STILL have enough left over for an Audi A4 or three.
Where do I sign up to lose money like this?
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Owe $25,000, your problem
Owe $25,000,000, bank's problem
Re:DVD-A and SACD aren't much better anyway
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If you live alone and don't have neighbors, you probably can't understand why that would be a problem. If you live in a family, an apartment, or any other situation where you'd be disturbing someone else, you can understand where too much dynamic range and bass can be a problem.
I agree, but dynamic range is what it's all about, especially with classical (or Kansas, for that matter).
Maybe I'm dating myself (heh-heh, he said he was dating himself, snicker), but I like ACDC, Rush, April Wine and other ear-bashers, but there's nothing like sitting in front of a live orchestra with all the sonic nuances, pauses and well-placed assaults on the ears. Being able to simulate this at home is really neato.
http://www.kansasband.com/discography.html
Moderate -1 for use of the word "neato"
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Contrary to slashdot conventional wisdom, I swear I could hear a difference with Monstercable (didn't hurt that the ex-wife worked for the distributor 15 years ago and I got them dirt cheap).
Non-clipping amps and great speakers DO make a difference.
Slashdot Mirror
grok /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. Contrast zen, which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a single brief flash. See also glark. 2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding. "Almost all C compilers grok the void type these days."
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g/grok.html
Why aren't these billionaires exploring the depths of the oceans as James "King of the World" Cameron does?
Surely there's interesting stuff down there, like nucular radiation-enlarged squids, slime monsters and maybe a Godzilla-like creature or two.
Are any of them funding research into solar cells, wind technology, tidal power or geothermal or is it all a great big ego boost?
"...Getting it all Slashdotted..."
Can you all stop being so self-referential from now on?
It's getting pretty pathetic (little boy with plastic army men vs. rubber monster pathetic), "ooh, look I'm part of an IMPORTANT GROUP OF PEOPLE because I can help to melt/destroy/liquefy/ someone else's server." The hyperbole is stunning and tells a lot about the shortcomings of the writer. Did I mention pathetic?
Has this replaced the single sock method?
Will it come with finger extensions a la Freddie Krueger? That would be neat and would keep away those annoying WiFi cops. Well at least until the SWAT team shows up.
"This is a truly impressive article, even if this guy does have a little too much free time on his hands."
He's a writer, isn't one of the requirements exactly that? Let's kill the cliches, obmission of verbs and other sloppy thinking and writing.
Speculative investment has to move towards startups (I.E., something that is really new and worth exploring) and not for 401K. What originally pissed me off about this was hearing senior execs virtually gushing about their ROI.
I hate the bell curve concept, but there are those that are desperately trying to make it work within the now dead corp/marketing world.
Once the MBAs gained control, all was lost.
Doing CAD work I was used to shadow mask monitors (supposedly better for detail work), but I'm more than happy with my current monitors even though I do notice the horizontal lines every now and then.
Buy the highest refresh rate you can afford, and consider a dual screen setup if your video card can handle it. Two seventeen-inchers are better than one 21".
(According to my ex-girlfriend)
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull
Those text ads are also googlesyndication.com ads.
Me too, I've noticed that these ads often reflect the subject matter of the accompanying story.
From: http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0126814
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"A butcher [who has created a new language] discovers that the rotten meat he has been dumping into a septic tank below his shop has turned radioactive [balonium]. A maniac named Abdullah [butcher's assistant] has killed the [corrupt] mayor, then brought him back to life as his slave [with an egg-beater arm attachment] to kill everyone in the town. Interplanetary aliens appear and help the butcher fight off the radioactive meat and Abdullah. This may sound like it's from about six different movies, but it's actually the same movie..."
I seem to remember that it was the aliens who resurrected the dead mayor and the town whiz kid inventor used his homemade cyclotron attached to his car to defeat the aliens, but I may have lost track of what was going on at some point.
http://www.bigmeateater.com/prodinfo.html and http://home.ica.net/~paulc/canux/review/bigmeat.h
The weapons you are looking for are currently unavailable. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors mandate.
the only country that had access to large enough quantities of helium was the US who fractionated it from natural gas
History of helium production
I don't know about others, but my browser is set to display a home made custom start page that resides on my hard disk.
Who knows he may even grow up to be an engineer.
If he grows up to be a software engineer, the same project will likely end up looking something like this
Then you can add blue tooth so you can fire it remotely...just make sure it doesn't get hacked
Like Roboguard?
For automatic operation, Roboguard is fitted with infrared sensors that allow it to track people as they move. Sooraksa has password-protected the "fire" command for when the robot is operated over the Internet. "We think the decision to fire should always be a human decision," he says. "Otherwise it could kill people."
But I have two sad words to add: Formosan Termites. They are in North America and headed north; the frost line didn't seem to stop them
And don't forget about the Mongolian Concrete Borer either.
Google lawyers, is that an oxymoron?
I always thought that Google was a panacea place staffed by altruistic ex dot com millionaires searching for The Truth.
Oh well, another trusted institution bites the dust.
You can crack H2 out of natural gas. I figure at Slashdot we have enough for a few hundred years. It takes lots of energy to extract, though. A great deal of research happens in Canada and other regions with abundant hydro power sources. Hydrogen storage has always been a problem, it doesn't have the same "bang for the buck" as gasoline.
Liquid hydrogen manufacture, storage and distribution is a pretty cool subject and is fascinating.
Talk to local tech reps from Air Liquide, Air Products and Praxair to find out more.
Aerogel.
Find problem, examine problem, fix problem, learn from problem, push forward. Sure worked (and still does) for trains, planes, and automobiles...
And get the astronauts comfy pillows while you're at it, we don't need any embarrassing episodes up there.
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"We'd be quicker playing pick-up-sticks with our butt-cheeks than we would be getting outta here"
Salon.com is appealing to the community for help. They haven't been able to pay the rent since December. To date, they've lost about $80 million dollars
Only $80 million? Even in Canadian dollars, this is ridiculous.
Wow. I could buy my building, employ a few hundred thousand homeless people as slashdot editors, feed the hungry AND STILL have enough left over for an Audi A4 or three.
Where do I sign up to lose money like this?
--
Owe $25,000, your problem
Owe $25,000,000, bank's problem
If you live alone and don't have neighbors, you probably can't understand why that would be a problem. If you live in a family, an apartment, or any other situation where you'd be disturbing someone else, you can understand where too much dynamic range and bass can be a problem.
I agree, but dynamic range is what it's all about, especially with classical (or Kansas, for that matter).
Maybe I'm dating myself (heh-heh, he said he was dating himself, snicker), but I like ACDC, Rush, April Wine and other ear-bashers, but there's nothing like sitting in front of a live orchestra with all the sonic nuances, pauses and well-placed assaults on the ears. Being able to simulate this at home is really neato.
http://www.kansasband.com/discography.html
Moderate -1 for use of the word "neato"
Contrary to slashdot conventional wisdom, I swear I could hear a difference with Monstercable (didn't hurt that the ex-wife worked for the distributor 15 years ago and I got them dirt cheap).
Non-clipping amps and great speakers DO make a difference.
Behold, young herd of nerds:
Barney Google